Heyman Center for the Humanities records, 1974-1997

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Series I: Heyman Center for the Humanities records, 1974-1997


Audiocassettes

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Box 1 Box 1 William "Ted" deBary 40th Anniversary Dinner, 1988 March 10, 2 audiocassettes

Oriental Humanities 40th Anniversary Dinner


Box 1 Box 1 Commission on the Core Curriculum, 1988 March 31


Box 1 Box 1 Commission on the Core Curriculum, 1988 April 6


Box 1 Box 1 Commission on the Core Curriculum, 1988 April 13


Box 1 Box 1 Commission on the Core Curriculum, 1988 April 20


Box 1 Box 1 Commission on the Core Curriculum, 1988 April 21


Box 1 Box 1 Commission on the Core Curriculum, 1988 April 27


Box 1 Box 1 Commission on the Core Curriculum, 1988 May 3


Box 1 Box 1 Fin-de-siecle, 1989 September 21, 2 audiocassettes


Box 1 Box 1 Bampton Lecture Annemarie Schimmel, 1990 October 22


Box 1 Box 1 Bampton Lecture Annemarie Schimmel, 1990 October 23


Box 1 Box 1 Bampton Lecture Annemarie Schimmel, 1990 October 29


Box 1 Box 1 Bampton Lecture Annemarie Schimmel, 1990 October 30


Box 1 Box 2 Bampton Lecture Annemarie Schimmel - Duplicates, 1990 October, 4 audiocassettes


Box 1 Folder 1 Brochures, circa 1981-1987

Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University in the City of New York


Chron Files

These correspondence files belonged to Ruth A. Levenson. Levenson joined Columbia in 1982 as an Associate Provost for Special Projects under then Provost Robert Goldberger. She coordinated academic programs related to the Center for Human Rights, the University Seminars, the Trilling Seminars and the Society of Fellows. Fluent in four languages, she was appointed director of the Center for the Study of Global Habitability in 1983. In 1991, she became associate director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities, where she administered seminars, programs and research for senior faculty. She retired from the University in 1993.


Box 1 Folder 2 1982 November-December


Box 1 Folder 3 1983 January-June


Box 1 Folder 4 1983 July-September


Box 1 Folder 5 1983 October-December


Box 1 Folder 6 1984 January-March


Box 1 Folder 7 1984 April-June


Box 1 Folder 8 1984 July-September


Box 1 Folder 9 1984 October-December


Box 1 Folder 10 1985 January-March


Box 1 Folder 11 1985 April-June


Box 1 Folder 12 1985 July-September


Box 1 Folder 13 1985 October-December



Box 2 Folder 1 1986 January-March


Box 2 Folder 2 1986 April-June


Box 2 Folder 3 1986 July-September


Box 2 Folder 4 1986 October-December


Box 2 Folder 5 1987 January-March


Box 2 Folder 6 1987 April-June


Box 2 Folder 7 1987 July-September


Box 2 Folder 8 1987 October-December


Box 2 Folder 9 1988 January-March


Box 2 Folder 10 1988 April-June


Box 2 Folder 11 1988 July-September


Box 2 Folder 12 1988 October-December


Box 2 Folder 13 1989 January-March


Box 2 Folder 14 1989 April-June


Box 2 Folder 15 1989 July-September


Box 2 Folder 16 1989 October-December


Box 2 Folder 17 1990 January-March


Box 2 Folder 18 1990 April-June


Box 2 Folder 19 1990 July-September


Box 2 Folder 20 1990 October-December


Box 2 Folder 21 1991 January-March


Box 2 Folder 22 1991 April-June



Box 3 Folder 1 1991 July-September


Box 3 Folder 2 1991 October-December


Box 3 Folder 3 1992 January-March


Box 3 Folder 4 1992 April-June


Box 3 Folder 5 1992 July-September


Box 3 Folder 6 1992 October-December


Events


Liszt Centenary Celebration

A collection of papers from this events are available in the Publications below.


Box 3 Folder 7-10 Liszt Centenary Committee, 1986

Planning documents, Ruth A. Levenson


Box 3 Folder 11 Liszt Centennial programs and printed materials, 1986


Box 3 Folder 12 "Literature in Liszt's Mind and Work" - A Lecture by Jacques Barzun, Library of Congress, 1987


Fin-de-Siecle Project

Planning documents, Steven Marcus


Box 3 Folder 13-14 Fin-de-Siecle Planning Committee, 1989-1991, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 15-18 Fin-de-Siecle readings, circa 1990, 4 folders

Photocopies of articles and book chapters; background reading


Box 3 Folder 19 Colloquium Women at the Turn of the Century, 1890-1910, 1992


Box 3 Folder 20 Colloquium on the Dreyfus Affair in 1994, 1994


Box 3 Folder 21 Exxon Education Foundation, 1987-1989


Publications


Box 3 Folder 22 Asia in the Core Curriculum, 1999

Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Convocation for Asian Humanities and Civilizations, May 7, 1999


Box 3 Folder 23 The Contemporary Humanities: Theory and Practice, 1988

Proceedings of a symposium on the tenth anniversary of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities., April 1987.


Box 3 Folder 24 Liszt & the Arts, 1986

A Collection of Papers Presented at a Liszt Centennial Celebration Sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University. Authors include Steven Marcus, Jacques Barzun, Harvey and Virginia Gross, Allan Keiler, Thomas Baker, Lawrence Kramer, Carl Woodring and Charles Suttoni.



Box 4 Folder 1 Perspectives on Punishment: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, 1997

Edited by Richard Mowery Andrews. Papers presented at the conference "Punishment: Meanings, Purposes, Practices. A Critical Interdisciplinary Exploration" organized by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, May 1990.


Proceedings of the General Education Seminar


Box 4 Folder 2 Seminar Reports, Volume 1, numbers 7-8, 1974

Prepared by the Seminar on General Education and Continuing Education in the Humanities (newsletters).


Box 4 Folder 3 Seminar Reports, Volume 2, numbers 1-8, 1974-1975

(newsletters)


Box 4 Folder 4-5 Seminar Reports, Volume 3, numbers 1-5 and 7, 1975

Program of General and Continuing Education in the Humanities (individual journal issues)


Box 4 Folder 6 Seminar Reports Volume 3, 1975 Fall

Professionalism and Humane Values. Program of General Education in the Humanities (collected volume)


Box 4 Folder 7 Seminar Reports Volume 4, 1976 Spring

Scientific Education and Humane Values


Box 4 Folder 8-10 Seminar Reports Volume 5, numbers 1-3, 3 folders

Liberalism and Liberal Education: Western, Eastern and Critical Perspectives


Box 4 Folder 11 Proceedings of the General Education Seminar Volume 7, numbers 1, and 3-4, 1978-1979

The City and the University; Charles Frankel


Box 4 Folder 12 Proceedings of the General Education Seminar Volume 8, numbers 1 and 3, 1979-1980

Contemporary Perceptions of Technology and the University


Box 4 Folder 13 Proceedings of the General Education Seminar Volume 9, 1980-1981

Bridges and Boundaries in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences


Box 4 Folder 14 Proceedings of the General Education Seminar Volume 10, 1981-1982

Educational Responsibility and the University


Box 4 Folder 15 Proceedings of the General Education Seminar Volume 11, 1982-1983

Educational Frontiers and the Cultural Tradition


Box 4 Folder 16 Visions of the Modern City: Essays in History, Art and Literature, 1983

Edited by William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock


Society of Fellows in the Humanities


Box 4 Folder 17 Annual Report, 1978-1979


Box 4 Folder 18 Annual Report, 1979-1980


Box 4 Folder 19 Annual Report, 1980-1981


Box 4 Folder 20 Annual Report, 1981-1982


Box 4 Folder 21 Annual Report, 1982-1983


Box 4 Folder 22 Annual Report, 1983-1984


Box 4 Folder 23 Annual Report, 1985-1986


Box 4 Folder 24 Correspondence, 1983-1985

Meetings, dinners, invitations, papers, etc.